I’m an iPod person.

I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

Factoring in millions of people when I’m writing a song is not a good idea. I don’t ever do it.

But when I hear a great song, I can’t help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

It’s easy to make an album full of great songs. But I want people to go for the ride. The songs have to make sense together.

As long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.

Mick Fleetwood was one of my first interviews. And if you’ve ever talked to that dude, he’s the sweetest guy in the world – he’s just a trip.

All my momma’s people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. They’re my biggest heroes. I love everything about Leonard Cohen: his lyrics and his voice. He seems like a really clever man, and Bob Dylan does as well. He’s just really cool.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

Apple took the edge off the word ‚computer.‘

I don’t know if it’s changing already with ‚Joanne,‘ but my intention is to bring people together that don’t know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That’s what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

My music is influenced by L.A. culture.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

There’s poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don’t like doing what people expect me to do.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

I kinda like the idea of having an album that’s all me.

A record deal doesn’t make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I’d just write.

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.

I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google.

Life is a song to me.

I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

I was a super once – an extra – in ‚Die Fledermaus,‘ and was seated within three feet of Placido Domingo. I had never heard a voice of that beauty so close up. It felt as if an electric shock were running through me.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

However, there’s no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

Being an artist doesn’t just mean you have a song. That doesn’t make you an artist. The word ‚artist‘ means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists – Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West – are doing the most.

I’m pretty sure in my older years, I’ll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

Computers double their performance every month.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

It’s very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it’s not really about if every sound is correct; it’s more the energy – if it hits you in some way, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not perfect. I’m still very excited while hunting for songs.

The vibe on ‚Starboy‘ comes from that hip-hop culture of braggadocio, from Wu-Tang and 50 Cent, the kind of music I listened to as a kid.

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

I always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?